Lofis iiolzworth



(No Model.)

L. HOLZWORTH.

PEN HOLDERQ Patented Mar. 5, 1889.

linrrnn STATES PA'rnr @rrrcn.

liOl'lb HOLZWORT] l, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGCOR TO THE EAGLE PENCIL (OM'PANL OF SAME PLACE.

PEN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,043, dated March 5, 1889.

' Application filed December 3, 1888 Serial No. 292,467. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: C shows the sheet-metal tongues or strips Be it known that- I, LoUls IIOL-ZWORTH, of placed inside the barrel 1% and concentrically the city, county, and State of New York, have one within the other. There are three of 50 invented a new and useful Improvement in these tongues in the present instance, and by 5 Pen-l lolders, of which the following is a specithem, in con j auction with barrel 1%, are formed fieation. three pen holding or receiving slots. By prolhc object I have in view is to produce a longing thetenon A of the handle, as seen in pen-holdcr capable of receiving and fitting Fig. 3, so that it shall come opposite the in- 55 pens of various sizes and shapes. It is well nermost tongue, a fourth slot is provided. I known that pens vary considerably, not only prefer to make these tongues progressively in the size, but in the shape of that part of shorter at their outer ends as they approach them which is inserted in the slotof the penthe center, as shown in the drawings, so that holder. This parthas a much sharper trans the user may select any one of the pen-slots 6o verse curve in some pens than in others, and wjthout ditficulty. l also prefer to form each consequently a pen-holder which will fit some of these tongues at its inner end with a tubupens is not at all well adapted to receive and lar. portion, 0'. These parts are nested hold others. To remedy this difficulty I have within the outer or main. barrel, B, and clasp devised a new pen-holder which is cheap and one another tightly, and the innermost one durable, can be easily made, and is entirely clasps the tenon A of the handle. They can 2o eilicient. Thispen-holderconsists, essentially, be secured together in this position by asmall of a barrel, combined with a plurality of rivet or by any suitable means employed by sheet-metal strips or tongues curved concenmechanics for like purpose. The tongues C, trieally with the barrel and placed inside of being of thin sheet metal, take up but little said barrel concentrically, one within the room, and the pen-slots formed by them are 25 other, thus furnishing a series of pen-slots, separated so little that when the pen-holder the transverse curvatures of which become is in use itis dit'ficultto determine in which sharper and more pronounced as they apslotthe pen is inserted. proach the common center. I prefer that Having described my improvement, whatI each of these strips should be formed with a claim herein new and of my own inven- 30 barrel or tubular portion, which portion fits tion is the one within the otherand surrounds the 1. A pen-holder consisting, essentially, of end of the pen-handle, the external or main the external or main barrel, B, and a plurality barrel surrounding them all. In this way of curved sheet-metal strips or tongues, C, the parts can be easily secured together and nested and secured within said barrel con- 3 5 to the pen-handle. centrically with one another, as and for the In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is purpose shown and described. an elevation, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal cen- 2. The pen holder and handle eonsistingof tral section, of a pen-holder embodying my the external barrel, B, and the tongues C, proinvention. Fig. 3 is a like section of a modivide-d with tubular inner ends, nested 4o fication. within the barrel and around the tenon of the A is the penhandle, and B is the external handle A, as and for the purpose set forth. or main barrel of the pen-holder. I prefer to In testimony whereoflhave hereunto set in y make this barrel of hard rubber and to fit it hand this 19th day of November, 1888.

upon a tenon of the pen-handle, so that the LOlIS HOLZlVOll'lll'. 45 exterior of the barrel shall be flush with and \Vitnesses:

shall form in effect a continuation of the eX- SAMUEL KRAL'S,

terior surface of the handle. MORRIS llA NOVER; 

